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Are you head of a 1-person development office - or a nonprofit executive director - needing to do it all "faster, smarter, better?" Create sustainable funding systems for your organization in 20 hours a week or less. Pamela is author of Five Days to Foundation Grants and the creator of Simple Development Systems, a member of the AFP, a contributing member to CharityChannel & a guest panelist of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

1. Practicing lousy follow-up (or none at all)
You’ve heard it said before. Good development is all about building relationships.
You “know” that fact. Yet how many times have you sighed over that grant proposal declination letter and filed it away with the proposal – without taking...

If you’re like me, you don’t have a lot of time to spare. Every day my workload grows. Finding the time to get to my own projects is presenting more and more of a challenge. And every day a new blog pops up in the Internet stratosphere – new opinions, new cutsie names and logos and people...

There’s an old adage (cliche’?) that “you get what you pay for.”
Try telling that to nonprofit organizations.
Several years back I worked with a small nonprofit agency with an annual budget of approximately half a million dollars. Early on in my role as development director – and throughout...

If Paula Dean provides an example of how a larger than life personality and killer branding can overcome mediocre email marketing, Cesar Millan is a classic example of how an equally big personality gets email marketing right.
If you’re not familiar with Cesar, star of the National Geographic show,...

A recent joint study by Convio, Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies, “Early Signals on Mobile Philanthropy: Is Haiti the Tipping Point?”pointed to some striking statistics on text giving. Prior to January 12, 2010, “little more than $1 million had been raised via mobile text.” ...

I’m a big fan of John Carlton.
For those who aren’t familiar with John’s work, he’s one of the highest paid copywriters in the world and a very successful marketer.
He recently hosted a couple of events, one in San Francisco and the other in Las Vegas, and experienced some interesting hotel...

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